News on my mom’s side is that her sister’s grand-daughter — my first cousin once removed — is winning competitions in her first year at Stanford. Here’s an interview after she came in second at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships yesterday.

Remember the name Brianna Bain.

P.S. For those who read my Roots post, she descended from the same seventeenth century puritans.

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